New Direction

Continuing with the idea of responsive building skins carried forward from Montreal and in light of the research of the past few weeks I've set off in a some semblance of a direction.

Bare bones, here it is:

Using the skin of a building [I'm using the term building loosely here, its simply the most fitting analogy] to inform the building of its environment, and then having the building respond to the data to tune itself to that environment.

An awfully difficult difficult program when you get into it, because it means designing both a skin condition, and a structure that responds to / alters this skin condition.

To begin, I am starting small, and making a structure that changes its shape based on information gathered by the environment.

Here are some of the early ideas:



The elements can be positioned in any orientation; wall, roof, whatever. The solid surface can then react with different elements in an environment and have very different effects on the contained environment - sun, precipitation, wind, privacy, etc etc. The sensor input is equally open-ended as it is inherently linked.